
Know Your Rights, Find Your Support — Built for Brent
This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community Brent is one of London's most diverse and deprived boroughs. 340,000 residents. 130+ languages spoken. A 27% child poverty rate, one of the highest in the capital. The people who live here are not short of resilience or community spirit. What they are often short of is information. Not because it doesn't exist but because it's scattered across dozens of council web pages, NHS portals, charity websites, and government guidance documents, written in bureaucratic language, rarely updated, and almost impossible to navigate under stress. When someone is facing eviction tonight, they don't have time to search five websites. When a young person gets stopped and searched, they should already know their rights. When a resident doesn't know there are fully funded training courses available to them for free — that information gap has a real cost. I live in Brent. I built this for my neighbours. What I Built Brent Navigato
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